uncombined

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The properties of combined elements are different from those in the free, or uncombined, state.

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Most of the representative metals do not occur naturally in an uncombined state because they readily react with water and oxygen in the air.

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Phosphorus is the only member of its group that does not occur in the uncombined state in nature; it exists in many allotropic forms.

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Arsenic is found in the uncombined condition in various localities, but more generally in combination with other metals and sulphur, in the form of more or less complex sulphides.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

But whenever the intermitting Fever is simple and uncombined, it ever has, and ever will render the Patient all possible Service.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)